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"We recognize Mr. Ahmad Maher for his outstanding leadership that has guided the bank to this point."
"We wish him all the best in his future endeavors."
"With a rebranded Bank, new core banking system, more new and refined products to enable us serve our customers better under our brand promise Growing with You."
"He leaves the Bank in a better position."
"We credit Mr. Ahmad Maher for the great leadership that has brought the bank this far."
"I have questioned moves like leaving MTN for Commercial Microfinance because moving from corporate to downtown opposite Owino was a mind-boggling experience."
"God has opened doors for me to have experiences that now serve me in this role."
"To change and adapt to the Mass Communication field and go with what it offered me was divine guidance."
"I would be lying if I said I planned my career."
"The guys in the newsroom are struggling because they spend hours rewriting and editing stories."
"It’s dragging us back! I could make the byline as an intern."
"We understand the need to employ young people, but their skill, knowledge, eye for detail, and commitment to excellence isn’t there."
"My feel is that there are presently few graduates who are able to think critically and hold valuable conversations."
"In the market place now, a lot of people will relate to you simply because you went to Makerere."
"In the mornings, the guys would come round, pick us and we would jog around the university while singing mchaka mchaka songs."
"I was swimming, playing basketball and squash."
"I was the Hockey Captain for Mary Stuart Hall."
"It facilitated my interactions with a number of people."
"What I loved about Makerere was the sports."
"I also felt that it could best be expressed in starting a company of my own. So that’s really why I left."
"I needed to find other ways to pour out, to use my knowledge."
"I realised that the company could do with new energy that would then take them to the next level."
"I had reached the areas where I felt the company should be going to, and I had kind of like stalled."
"I had hit the ceiling. Even when I chose not to renew my contract, it was really because I had done everything that I had been tasked to do."
"So, just those two first years of my career after university really taught me the work ethic that enabled me now to excel in these different places that I went to."
"We were typing and that really taught us to stay up late, work hard, you know, burn the midnight oil."
"People would hand in written work but Mass Communications’ students even before the age of computers."
"I guess this was the same at even my university because we would be up at midnight, you know, typing work and everything."
"I was like, ‘Whoa what is this?’ Because we were working hard and burning the midnight oil."
"My first gig at an advertising agency, two years fresh out of university."
"I learned that work ethic while I worked at Scanad."
"That work ethic where nothing is impossible and you can do all things."
"That work ethic hasn’t changed and right now I’m trying to teach it to my team at Urge Uganda."
"I’ve always pushed myself no matter what task I’m given, to give my best and I think that remains one of my principles."
"I honestly see the hand of God leading and guiding me and placing me in different institutions and I doing my bit and and always giving my best."
"My career path has really been one where when I look back, intentional, and yet not intentional by my standards."
"I guess why I survived eight years, so to speak, is because I kept re-inventing my role such that by the time I left, my role had grown by leaps and bounds as I kept re-inventing it and adding responsibilities and finding new ways to keep myself challenged."
"That’s why my previous work stints were all three years, until I got to Vision Group where I surprised myself by lasting eight years."
"I’m going to add value to the company."
"I love to feel that when I wake up in the morning, and I go to work, I’m going to make a difference."
"Sometimes that calls for crazy decision making, but I love challenges."
"I am not adding any more value."
"I don’t like to sit in a place where I feel like I’m being paid, but I’m not really doing much."
"I move on to the next challenge, because I love challenges."
"I think I’ve done what I came to do here."
"I never need more than three years because after three years, I feel like, ‘Okay."
"I then took a break for a year. After the sabbatical and I joined Vision Group, a media conglomerate."
"I went to DFCU Bank as Head of Marketing and Communications."
"And then from there, I went to Commercial Microfinance Bank as the Head of Marketing and Retail."
"I joined MTN as an Advertising Manager and then Brand Manager."